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Continue reading →: How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman BarrettFirst published March 7, 2017 A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind. Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that…
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Continue reading →: Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net’s Impact on Our Minds and Futureby John BrockmanFirst published January 1, 2011 The book is full of short essays between one-two pages. Interesting ideas but nothing in-depth. So many of the essays talked about how the Internet was short / fragmented – and the essays in this book seemed written along the same lines: short (with some…
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Continue reading →: Why We Sleep : Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew WalkerFirst published September 28, 2017 Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness…
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Continue reading →: The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard MlodinowFirst published September 7, 2010 When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally,…
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Continue reading →: Effective Conversations: The Art of Listening and SupportWe all have moments when words fail us. Often this is because the words we need are swirling in a fog of emotions; sometimes leaving them hidden seems more appealing than taking the risk of putting a distressing situation into words. Beginning a conversation about difficult truths can feel daunting…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Global Population DynamicsDemography, which essentially means the ups, downs, and movements of different population groups within the human race. Demographic measures include things like birth rates, income, age structure, ethnicity, and migration flows. We shall examine all of these in due course but for now, let us start with the most basic…
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Continue reading →: The Nature of Cancer: Why Some Tumors Are DeadlyThe CDC suggests that “To lose weight, you must use up more calories than you take in. Since one pound of body fat contains approximately 3,500 calo-ries, you need to reduce your caloric intake by 500-1000 calories per day to lose about 1-2 pounds per week.” This is fairly standard…
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Continue reading →: The Evolution of the Mammalian BrainOur brains allow us to see things and make sense of what we are doing. They allow us to take action: to move purposefully and do things when we need to or want to. They allow us to hear: to interpret vibrations in the air, to identify where they are…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Stress: Its Impact on Health and DiseaseOne cannot really understand a disease in vacuum, but rather only in the context of another person suffering from that disease. Thanks to the revolutionary advance in our medicine, and public health, our patterns of diseases have changed, we are now living well and long enough to slowly fall apart.…
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Continue reading →: The Impact of Social Media on Mental Well-BeingThe choices we make in life define our journey. Most things are out of our control, but how we react is always in our control. In life, we are sometimes trained to respond only in a certain way. This is called social conditioning, where an individual responds to a situation…
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